Recall · 22V861000
Volkswagen Group of America recalled 7 models over electrical system
50,883
Vehicles covered
7
Models
21
Model years
November 21, 2022
Filed with NHTSA
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
- The defect
- Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. (Audi) is recalling certain 2020-2022 Audi S7, S6 Sedan, A6 Allroad, 2021-2022 RS7, RS6 Avant, 2019-2022 A7, and A6 Sedan vehicles. Liquid spilled in the rear seat may penetrate and cause the gateway control module to shut down.
- What it can cause
- A gateway control module shutdown will suddenly reduce engine power, increasing the risk of a crash.
- What the dealer does
- Dealers will install a protective cover, free of charge. Owner notification letters are expected to be mailed January 20, 2023. Owners may contact Audi's customer service at 1-800-253-2834. Audi's number for this recall is 90V2.
- NHTSA's note
- Owners may also contact the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Vehicle Safety Hotline at 1-888-327-4236 (TTY 1-800-424-9153), or go to www.nhtsa.gov.
The repair is free, whatever the age or mileage of the vehicle, and whether or not you are the original owner.
Which vehicles
A recall reaches a range of VINs inside these model years, not every car built in them. Yours may not be covered even if it is listed here, and the only way to find out is NHTSA's own VIN lookup .
How this campaign compares
At 50,883 vehicles this is a bigger campaign than 89% of the 19,818 vehicle recalls filed since 1995 whose size NHTSA published. The middle campaign on file covers 472. It covers model years 2019 to 2022, so the oldest vehicles on it were 3 model years old when the defect was reported to NHTSA.
Audi vehicles have been recalled over the electrical system 15 times before this, most recently in March 2022 as 22V155000. That is not evidence the earlier repair failed.
This site holds the complaint record for 7 of the 21 model years the campaign names. Their owners have filed 219 complaints with NHTSA, 49 of them before this campaign was filed. 146 of those name the electrical system, the system this recall is about — a count of complaints, not of this defect. The earliest of them reached NHTSA in January 2019, 3 years before this filing.
The vehicles on this campaign carry 18 other recalls published here, the newest being: 26V125000 (lane departure), 25V900000 (back over prevention), 25V201000 (electrical system), 24V898000 (electrical system).
Check your own car
A VIN check is the only answer for a specific vehicle, and it also shows every other open recall on it, which is usually the reason it is worth doing rather than reading one campaign.
Filed by Volkswagen Group of America, Inc. with NHTSA on November 21, 2022 as campaign 22V861000. Every word of the defect, consequence and remedy above is NHTSA's published record of that filing, not a summary of it.
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